A marrow scoop consists of two scoops of different size, joined by a stem, which are designed to remove the marrow jelly from bones. They seem to have emerged as a distinct type of flatware in around 1710: seventeenth-century scoops were in fact spoons with a scoop-shapped stem. Although they were originally supplied as a single item in a set of twelve knives, forks and spoons, inventories suggest that by the end of the eighteenth century marrow scoops, too, were sold in sets of a dozen.